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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Stoner refuse to let anyone do during his questioning of Walker in his oral examination?
(a) Interrupt.
(b) Laugh.
(c) Breathe.
(d) Talk.

2. What does Stoner make with his seminar class when he starts it in Chapter IX?
(a) A sloppy appearance.
(b) A bad impression.
(c) A dominant appearance.
(d) A connection.

3. How many seminars are students required to take to finish a doctorate at Stoner's university?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 5.
(d) 4.

4. Whose schedule is made so that Stoner never sees them in Chapter XI?
(a) Grace's.
(b) Katherine's.
(c) Lomax's.
(d) Finch's.

5. What does Stoner say when Finch asks him if he wants to be the new director of the English department?
(a) He asks for time to think.
(b) He laughs.
(c) He accepts.
(d) He doesn't want the job.

6. How does Walker react to Stoner when he is threatened to be failed in his seminar?
(a) Pleads with him.
(b) Laughs.
(c) Yells at him.
(d) Cries.

7. How does Stoner find Katherine when he goes to visit her after hearing she was sick?
(a) Excited.
(b) Happy.
(c) Desperately unhappy.
(d) Curious.

8. What does Stoner's student who audits his seminar present her final presentation on in Chapter IX?
(a) Renaissance Latin literature.
(b) The Sonnet.
(c) Donatus on Shakespeare.
(d) Petrarch.

9. How late is Stoner for his appointment with Katherine to discuss her paper?
(a) An hour.
(b) 2 hours.
(c) 15 minutes.
(d) 30 minutes.

10. Who puzzles over Lomax's devotion to Walker in Chapter X?
(a) Katherine and Finch.
(b) Stoner.
(c) Frye and Stoner.
(d) Stoner and Finch.

11. What is the name of the young woman who audits Stoner's seminar?
(a) Jane.
(b) Katherine.
(c) Fiona.
(d) Elizabeth.

12. Who tries to convince Lomax to give Stoner his good class schedule back in Chapter XIV?
(a) Edith.
(b) Sloane.
(c) Masters.
(d) Finch.

13. How does Stoner initially react to Walker's oral examination?
(a) Unimpressed.
(b) Impressed.
(c) Blown away.
(d) Intrigued.

14. How many minutes are professors allowed to question Walker during his oral examination?
(a) 30.
(b) 20.
(c) 15.
(d) 45.

15. Who does the person who questions Stoner about his conduct against Walker agree with after hearing his argument?
(a) Hollis Lomax.
(b) Charles Walker.
(c) The dean.
(d) Stoner.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of reaction does Katherine give Stoner after giving her presentation in his class?

2. Who attacks Katherine's presentation in Stoner's seminar?

3. What subject does Stoner begin teaching radically and causing complaints from students?

4. What does Walker's committee decide about his fate after his oral examination?

5. Which of the following ways does Stoner's personality not change in Chapter XIV?

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